I remember many years ago a guy was running the same scam on girls in San Antonio.
But here is the kicker: They came down to meet him at his furniture store and still bought into the story that this was an audition for porn movies. A furniture store? Really? Were those girls brain dead?
Of course, the beds were right there so they didn’t have to use an office couch.
There’s a gag at the opener of the British Lock Stock & (two smoking barrels) tv show:
The lads are running a pub and one of the mates walks in a sees a line of birds waiting to take their shirts off. He asks one of his friends, “what’s all this about?”
“We’re auditioning topless waitresses.”
“Now hold on, we don’t have money for that.”
“I know that, and you know that, but they don’t know that.” (knowing glance and a head not at a video camera on the wall).
Later the proprietors sit in a back room, beers in hand, to view the tape and one of them is standing directly in front of the camera, the back of his head bobbing up and down the hole time.